Wallwork, AdrianUnknown
Springer International Publishing (New York, 2016) (eng) English9783319260921Unknown2nd ed.ENGLISH LANGUAGE-TECHNICAL ENGLISH; UnknownPublishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English usage and poor structure and content.
With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to:
• prepare and structure a manuscript
• increase readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing concisely, with no redundancy and no ambiguity
• write a title and an abstract that will attract attention and be read
• decide what to include in the various parts of the paper (Introduction, Methodology, Discussion etc)
• highlight your claims and contribution
• avoid plagiarism
• discuss the limitations of your research
• choose the correct tenses and style
• satisfy the requirements of editors and reviewers
This new edition contains over 40% new material, including two new chapters, stimulating factoids, and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use.
EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for preparing both instructive and entertaining lessons.
Physical dimension
xx, 377p.24 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
PART 1. WRITING SKILLS --
1. Planning and Preparation --
2. Structuring a sentence: word order --
3. Structuring Paragraphs --
4. Breaking Up Long Sentences --
5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy --
6. Avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language --
7. Clarifying Who Did What --
8. Highlighting Your Findings --
9. Discussing your limitations --
10. Hedging and Criticising --
11. Plagiarism and Paraphrasing --
PART 2. SECTIONS OF A PAPER --
12. Titles --
13. Abstracts --
14. Introduction --
15. Review of the Literature --
16. Methods --
17. Results --
18. Discussion --
19. Conclusions --
20. The Final Check.